Texture based Clustering Technique for Fetal Ultrasound Image Segmentation

Abstract

Segmentation of fetal ultrasound image is an important and necessary task in the automation of fetal biometric measurement. Fetal ultrasound image segmentation is tedious because of the fuzzy nature and textured appearance of fetal structures. Hence, texture based Clustering is proposed for segmenting fetal ultrasound images. Clustering is performed using texture properties of the images which are used for segmenting ultrasound images of fetus. Texture based clustering technique can be used for segmenting all fetal anatomies specifically abdomen, the boundaries of which are very vague and difficult to delineate. Synthetic, simulated ultrasound images and 120 ultrasound fetal images were used for validating the method achieving an accuracy of 90%.